You may have noticed that the external links in this blog are followed by little bubbles that sort of look like empty speech bubbles, like this.
I'm using a cool little tool made by Snap.com called Snap Shots. It's an easy way to tell where a link is going to go if you click it. Why waste your time if the destination doesn't look compelling? Or worse yet, why get tricked into going somewhere you didn't want to go? (That wouldn't happen in this blog--I'm just saying...) Hover over the link to see the target destination.
Transparency is becoming increasingly important--especially for ecommerce--and Snap.com is making it easy to do. They have several types of shots, including product shots that I use on my EverythingLincoln.com site. For example, this is a screen shot of my bibliography page, which lists the hundreds of Lincoln books I use when writing something for my site. See something you like? Snap makes it easy to see the product information from Amazon.com, which is something a bit slicker than just being able to show you the Web site. This is a special type of Snap Shot called ProductShot. (Notice also that I can customize the little snap popup by adding my own EverythingLincoln.com logo to the bottom.)
Unfortunately, ProductShots only support products on Amazon.com (and not all of them at that). Hopefully they'll expand their product support and show a special version of the Item Description page for an eBay item.
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